For decades, licensed hunters have killed hundreds of Colorado mountain lions every year to control the state’s population of the elusive feline. Voters in November will decide whether to ban the practice, along with the trapping of bobcats. That prospect has set off a deluge of competing claims about what will happen if big-cat hunting … Read more
Colorado voters are set to weigh in on ballot questions related to abortion rights, veterinary services, mountain lion trophy hunting and an overhaul of the state’s election system in November. The deadline to finalize the state’s ballot is coming Friday, but all of the citizen initiatives — meaning ballot questions pursued by members of the … Read more
An initiative that would ban the hunting and commercial trapping of mountain lions and other wild cats will be on the statewide ballot in November. The Colorado Secretary of State’s Office said Wednesday that the measure backed by wildlife advocates had garnered more than enough signatures to qualify for the Nov. 5 election. Backers turned … Read more
Dear Dr. John, Our cat spends a fair amount of time outside for six months of the year. He is a very good hunter, but he drives me crazy when he brings home dead animals he has caught. The range of species is quite impressive but why does he do this? Also, I heard that … Read more
Switch on the news over the past few years, and you would have seen a recurring theme of bears wandering close to homes, sometimes sleeping on balconies, even ransacking kitchens. A hunter sets the GPS collar on his dog before sending him into the woods to sniff out deer, in Hadano, Kanagawa, Japan. Photo: Mariella … Read more
